v. 303. _a farly freke_] i. e. a strange fellow: see notes, p. 109. v. 187; p. 178. v. 15. v. 304. _an horne keke_] A term which I am unable to explain. v. 308. _swerde_] i. e. sword. v. 309. _the Lyon White_] See note, p. 220. v. 135. v. 316. _render the_] i. e. consign thee. v. 317. _the flingande fende_] i. e. the flinging fiend. So in Ingelend’s _Disobedient Child_, n. d.; “_The flyings and_ [sic] _fiende_ go with my wyfe.” Sig. F ii. Northern readers at least need not be informed that to _fling_ means—to throw out the legs; “Sumtyme, in dansing, feirelie I _flang_.” Sir D. Lyndsay’s _Epistill_ before his _Dreme_,—_Workes_, i. 187. ed. Chalmers. v. 319. _borde_] i. e. jest. v. 322. _parbrake_] i. e. vomit. v. 323. _auauns_] i. e. vaunts. “The braging _avaunts_ of the Spaniards be so accalmed,” &c. _Letter of Wolsey_,—Burnet’s _Hist. of the Reform._, iii. P. ii. 9. ed. 1816. v. 324. _wordes enbosed_] i. e. swollen, big words. v. 329. _lewde_] i. e. evil, vile. v. 330. _Sir Dunkan_] See note on v. 270. p. 379. —— _in the deuill waye_] See note, p. 287. v. 672. Page 78. v. 336. _lurdayne_] See note, p. 242. v. 423. v. 341. _varry_] i. e. fall at variance, contend. v. 344. _stownde_] i. e. moment. v. 348. _ryn_] i. e. run. v. 352. _loke_] i. e. look. v. 353. _defoyle_] i. e. defile. v. 360. _wele_] i. e. well. v. 366. _bace_] i. e. low. Page 79. v. 375. _cordylar_] i. e. cordelier,—a Franciscan friar, whose cincture is a _cord_. v. 377. _to_] i. e. too. v. 380. _daucockes_] i. e. simpletons: see note, p. 113. v. 301. v. 381. _reme_] i. e. realm. v. 382. _Ge heme_] Scottice for—Go home (as before in _Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 123. vol. ii. 30). v. 383. _fonde_] i. e. foolish. Page 79. v. 386. _mate you with chekmate_] In allusion to the king’s being put in _check_ at the game of chess. And see note, p. 355. v. 158. v. 389. _pype in a quibyble_] The word _quibyble_, as far as I am aware, occurs only in Skelton. Chaucer has a well-known passage, “And playen songes on a small ribible; Therto he song somtime a loud _quinible_.” _The Milleres Tale_, v. 3331, where Tyrwhitt (apparently against the context) supposes _quinible_ to be an instrument: and I may notice that Forby gives “_Whybibble_, a whimsy; idle fancy; silly scruple, &c.” _Voc. of East Anglia._ v. 398. _faytes_] i. e. facts, doings. v. 399. _me dresse_] i. e. address, apply myself. Page 80. v. 406. _auaunce_] i. e. advance. v. 410. _nobles_] i. e. noblesse, nobleness. v. 417. _rechelesse_] i. e. reckless. v. 418. _a lunatyke ouerage_] See note, p. 352. v. 39. v. 420. _ennewde_] See note, p. 144. v. 775. v. 431. _Lyke vnto Hercules_] Barclay goes still farther in a compliment to the same monarch; “_He passeth Hercules_ in manhode and courage.” _The Ship of Fooles_, fol. 205. ed. 1570. v. 436. _foy_] i. e. faith. Page 81. v. 439. _Scipiades_] i. e. Scipio. v. 442. _Duke Iosue_]—_Duke_, i. e. leader, lord. So Hawes;